| Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. | Susan Ertz |
| Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Don’t discard your fantasies as merely wishful thinking. Honor them as messages from the deepest part of your being about what you can do and directions you can choose. | Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer |
| The successful man is the average man, focused. | Source Unknown |
| Desire, ask, believe, receive. | Stella Terrill Mann |
| No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it. | Richard Bach |
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. | Thomas Edison |
| No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do. | Jana Stanfied |
| We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new. | Epictetus |
| You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! | Bob Richards |
| Problems are a sign of life. | Normal Vincent Peale |
| You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are… your simple presence can make others happy. | Jane Roberts |
| All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is the one who is willing to do and dare. | Dale Carnegie |
| Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing: the result. | Vince Lombardi |
| Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started. | David Allen |
| Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. | Carl Bard |
| Remember, no matter where you go, there you are. | Earl Mac Rauch |
| The beauty of all things lies in your ability to appreciate them. | Author Unknown |
| We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. | General Omar N. Bradley |
| If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. | Nora Roberts |
| The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. | William Cowper |
| I don’t believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. | Ronald Reagan |
| If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. | Brian Tracy |
| If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. | David Viscott |
| Life in itself is an empty canvas, it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory. | Osho |
| If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. | Norman Vincent Peale |
| Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows. | Michael Landon |
| The more one hurries, the less time they have. | The Universe |
| You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. | James Allen |
| I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. | Arthur Rubinstein |
| When you fight something, you’re tied to it forever. As long as you’re fighting it, you’re giving it power. | Anthony de Mello |
| Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. | Oprah Winfrey |
| Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you. | Brian Tracy |
| Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy. | Dale Carnegie |
| Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most. | Sri Chinmoy |
| We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. | Charles R. Swindoll |
| I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. | Thomas Jefferson |
| The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. | Chinese Proverb |
| There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. | W. Clement Stone |
| If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple: Know what you’re doing. Love what you’re doing. And believe in what you’re doing. | Will Rogers |
| We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become. | Dr. David Hawkins |
| True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. | Seneca |
| Any situation that you find yourself in, is an outward reflection of your inner state of beingness. | El Morya |
| One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have – we just need to learn to tap into and trust it. | Donna Karan |
| The meaning of life is to give life meaning. | Ken Hudgins |
| For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real. | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi |
| Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a ‘must’ and ‘want’. | Jim Rohn |
| If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. | Pablo Picasso |
| If we only knew that we could have anything we wanted we would set more goals. | Earl Nightingale |
| Men do not fail; they give up trying. | Elihu Root |
| The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love. | Henry Miller |
| Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. | C. S. Lewis |
| I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. | Thomas Edison |
| Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way. | Dr. Seuss |
| When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have. | Kathleen A. Sutton |
| Your imagination is your preview to life’s coming attractions. | Albert Einstein |
| It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. | Jenny Craig |
| You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. | Buddha |
| If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity. | Loretta Staples |
| Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. | Ray Kroc |
| Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. | Mason Cooley |
| We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. | Carlos Castenada |
| Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. | Dr. Wayne Dyer |
| Within you now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you change your beliefs. | Dr. Maxwell Maltz |
| The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. | Denis Watley |
| It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. | Garrison Keillor |
| Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. | James Michener Zen |
| I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities. | Whoopi Goldberg |
| We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. | George Bernard Shaw |
| Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life. | Germaine Greer |
| Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage. | Claude M. Bristol |
| Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries. | Corita Kent |
| The first part of success is ‘Get-to-it-iveness’; the second part of success is ‘Stick-to-it-iveness.’ | Orison Swett Marden |
| Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. | Michael Jordan |
| Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Life does not happen to us, it happens from us. | Mike Wickett |
| If you always give you will always have. | Chinese Proverb |
| Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. | Chinese Proverb |
| Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. | Charles F. Kettering |
| It is the `follow through’ that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop. | Charles F. Kettering |
| To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. | Sydney Smith |
| It does not matter if we have material wealth. What really matters is – what do we do with it? | John Wood |
| Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning. | Mahatma Gandhi |
| When I’m having trouble with someone, it’s a sure sign that person is exactly the gift I am needing in my life. Sometimes it takes me years to write the thank you note, though. | |
| Before you can score you must first have a goal. | Proverb |
| It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. | Pablo Picasso |
| Change brings on the opportunity to do what you were too scared to attempt yourself. | Enzo D’Alimonte |
| The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you. | Tin Cup |
| Don’t tell me where your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money and I’ll tell you what they are. | James W. Frick |
| Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Most of us are in touch with our intuition whether we know it or not, but we’re usually in the habit of doubting or contradicting it so automatically that we don’t even know it has spoken. | Shakti Gawain |
| To those who can dream there is no such place as faraway. | Anonymous |
| I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn. | Herbie Hancock |
| The only thing even in this world are the number of hours in a day. The difference in winning or losing is what you do with those hours. | Woody Hayes |
| You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. | Henry David Thoreau |
| Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt. | William Van Horne |
| In all the universe, in all time, you are the only you. Never have molecules come together exactly like you, never again will your footsteps be repeated upon this earth. Your strength is the strength someone can count on, your life is the life that can make a difference. | Author Unknown |
| The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. | Arnold Palmer |
| Every day holds the possibility of a miracle. | Elizabeth David |
| Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. | Soren Kierkegaard |
| To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. | John Henry Newman Zen |
| When in doubt, just take the next small step. | |
| Nothing’s far when one wants to get there. | Queen Marie of Rumania |
| If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. | Neil Peart |
| It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. | Mother Teresa |
| Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. | Burk Hudson |
| Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. | Arnold Bennett |
| It has to start someplace, it has to start some time, what better place than here, what better time than now. | Mellow Yellow |
| The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it. | Peter Drucker |
| The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. | Moliere |
| Life is something like this trumpet. If you don’t put anything in it, you don’t get anything out. | W. C. Handy |
| Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. | Dale Carnegie |
| Don’t start living tomorrow, tomorrow never arrives. Start working on your dreams and ambitions today. | |
| Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. | Barbara De Angelis |
| There are really only two conditions of the human mind: Very, very happy. Or, about to become very, very happy. Which are you today? | Mike Dooley Goal |
| Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. | Chinese Proverb |
| The secret of success in life is for a person to be ready for opportunity when it comes. | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Happiness is permanent. It is always there. What comes and goes is unhappiness. | Papaji |
| Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. | Eckhart Tolle |
| The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. | Zen Saying |
| Smile, it’s free therapy. | Doug Horton |
| Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. | Booker T. Washington |
| The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us. | Marianne Williamson |
| Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. | Epicurus |
| The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect. | Adam Osborne |
| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. | Anne Frank |
| Every time you state what you want or believe, you’re the first to hear it. It’s a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don’t put a ceiling on yourself. | Oprah Winfrey |
| Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power, a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. | Marsha Sinetar |
| Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. | Walter Elliott |
| When you’re nice to people, they want to be nice back to you. | Jack Canfield |
| There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. | Francis Bacon |
| Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success. | Alonzo Newton Benn |
| Be a fountain, not a drain. | Rex Hudler |
| Procrastination is the seed of self-destruction. | Matthew Burton |
| In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder. | |
| Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can. | Mary Frances Berry |
| Courage is saying, ‘Maybe what I’m doing isn’t working; maybe I should try something else.’ | Anna Lappe |
| Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. | Will Rogers |
| Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. | Thich Nhat Hanh |
| Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. | Dr. Joyce Brothers |
| I dream, therefore I become. | Cheryl Renee Grossman |
| If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you. | Mary Tricky |
| Whether it’s praise, love, criticism, money, time, power, punishment, space, sorrow, laughter, need, pain, or pleasure… the more of it that you give, the more of it you will receive. | Mike Dooley |
| It is necessary to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. | Wallace D. Wattles |
| I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. | Anonymous |
| Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around wondering about yourself. | Katharine Hepburn |
| Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves. | Robert Rodriguez |
| Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. | Chamfort |
| Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. | Erich Fromm |
| Nothing happens until I make it happen. | Scott Wilson |
| Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. | Walter Anderson |
| Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. | Johann Wolfgang |
| What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. | Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen. | Lee Iacocca |
| Energy and persistence conquer all things. | Benjamin Franklin |
| Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask, but when we are challenged to be what we can be. | Morris Adler |
| Think you can’t change the world? Too late, you already have. It was changed for the better the minute you were born. | Gail Pursell Elliott |
| There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen. | Hugh Prather |
| As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. | Isabelle Holland |
| Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. | Wayne Dyer |
| You don’t have to specialize – do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. | Francis Ford Coppola |
| It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. | Claude M. Bristol |
| The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. | Herbert Spencer |
| People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. | Stedma |
| One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed. | Bernard Baruch |
| The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. | W. M. Lewis |
| Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That’s the only thing. | Ernest J. Gaines |
| The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life is simply the will to pursue it and the faith to believe it is possible. | |
| You must tell yourself, no matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it. | Les Brown |
| We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. | Buddha |
| Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. | Brian Tracy |
| All things are difficult before they are easy. | John Norley |
| Does the thought you are now thinking take you where you want to go? If not, what thought would? | Gregg Levoy |
| One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. | John Stuart Mill |
| Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. | Nikki Giovanni |
| If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. | Frank A. Clark |
| If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. | Julia Sorel |
| There is no better time than right now to be happy. | Author Unknown |
| God has no other hands than ours. | Dorothee Solle |
| Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. | John D. Rockefeller |
| Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else’s. | Martha Burgess |
| Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. | Sri Sri Ravi Shankar |
| Do what you can with what you have where you are. | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. | Franklin Roosevelt |
| You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days. | Source Unknown |
| Watch your thoughts; they become your words. Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character for it will become your destiny. | Frank Outlaw |
| There is only one you… Don’t you dare change just because you’re outnumbered! | Charles Swindoll |
| There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other. | Douglas H. Everett |
| Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. | Nido Qubein |
| I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try. | Anonymous |
| Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. | Ambrose Redmoon |
